1st Edition

Therapeutic Storywriting A Practical Guide to Developing Emotional Literacy in Primary Schools

By Trisha Waters Copyright 2004
128 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

128 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

128 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

Literacy work can provide a therapeutic context in which to support children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in mainstream schools. This text provides a clear theoretical rationale for therapeutic storywriting.

Foreword; Introduction; What is therapeutic storywriting?; The significance of story metaphor; Story as a narrative of identity; Working with groups; Individual work; Receiving the child's story; The teacher's story; Use of guided visualisation

Biography

Trisha Waters